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This paper follows very closely the talk given at Quantum [Un]Speakables II: 50 Years of Bell’s Theorem. It will be argued that information plays a central role in interpreting and understanding real experiments.
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This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with SFB F40 (FoQuS).
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Zeilinger, A. (2017). New Dimensions for Entangled Photons: The Role of Information. In: Bertlmann, R., Zeilinger, A. (eds) Quantum [Un]Speakables II. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38987-5_30
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